Meet our Staff

Meet our Staff

Angie Madden - Therapist


Angie has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2009.


She completed her Bachelor's Degree of Science in Social Work at Texas Woman's University and earned her Master's Degree of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. 


Angie is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, trained EAGALA Mental Health Professional, and a US Navy Veteran.


She is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). 


Her clinical experience includes working with Anxiety Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Intellectual Developmental Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Personality Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 


Angie says: "My passion is helping people strengthen their relationships. Couples, parents and children, siblings, any relationship we experience throughout our lives, they all require the same basic formula for success: communication, realistic expectations, and established boundaries. Helping others develop healthy skills to navigate difficult times is sincerely gratifying to me. 


Being able to use horses to heal is very rewarding for me, I love what I do!"

Julie Landsaw - Therapist


Julie is a licensed professional counselor. Julie has spent the last five years working with people as they examine their trauma and anxiety, depression, addictions, career transitions and relationships as they work to reach their life goals. 


She is a Gottman trained marriage counselor and a Certified sex addiction therapist. Julie has spent time in the office studying the effects of betrayal, toxic relationships and how these change the messages people have about themselves. 


Julie works with couples, individuals and groups on internal and external boundaries. Julie instructs her clients on how to clearly communicate and be attuned to their own needs and the needs of those around them. 


To develop trust and discover effective strategies for managing unhealthy patterns, Julie finds it’s often best to have a connected, mutual relationship. The relationship developed with horses in EAP provides this necessary trust and connection for improvement. EAP helps people quickly get to the roots of their core issues.

Debra Pruitt  - Professional Counselor


Debra Pruitt is a Licensed Professional Counselor and graduated from Amberton University in Garland, Texas in 1996.  She opened her private practice in a “small town” of Frisco, Texas in September 1998.  Debra has extensive experience in a variety of mental health modalities.  She spent many years working with children, adolescent, adults and families in many settings.  She has worked with children and adults with developmental and cognitive delays.  She worked for multiple mental health facilities in out patient and in patient settings.


Some of her specialty’s include:  ADD/ADHD, developmental delay, anxiety disorders, depressive mood disorders, bi-polar disorder and PTSD.  Her goal is to assist in helping her clients to achieve their goals and improve physical health, emotional health and quality of life.


Debra is EAGALA certified as a mental health professional.  She is experienced in the EAGALA modality and had her own equine therapy in Keller, Texas prior to joining 4 Hooves for Hearts.

Becky Shewchuk - Equine Specialist


Becky Shewchuk, was born and raised in Dallas. She is the Founder and Managing Director of 4 Hooves for Hearts, Inc., an equine therapy center founded in 2021 that practices the EAGALA method.


Self-employed, she has owned and managed a Residential Construction Company since August 1979 so has vast experience in running a business. She is blessed to own a home, facilities and acreage just north of Dallas in a prominent and accessible location and has always had the desire to do something meaningful and of value with this property.


She has had a passion for horses and helping people her entire life, and has owned and cared for horses since she was a child. 


She is an accomplished horse woman in her own right and graduated the Parelli Natural Horsemanship program through Level 4, their highest recognized level, in 2018. She completed her Parelli training after she formed her rescue, WindyHill Equine Rescue and Rehoming, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation,  understanding that the key to a horse’s success is in education and in order to educate a horse, you must educate yourself first. 

Understanding this, she has built a program that sets WindyHill Equine Rescue and Rehoming apart from many other rescue programs because of its strong emphasis on training or re-training the rescued horse through natural horsemanship.


Through her rescue program, she recognized that there are many horses with soundness issues that were not good for riding, yet they had much to offer. Always having an interest in how the horse relates to people and equine therapy, she became certified in EAGALA in June 2020 as an Equine Specialist and formed 4 Hooves for Hearts, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation  in order to offer equine therapy to the community using WindyHill Rescue and Rehoming horses as the therapy horses. 


She has recently retired from her construction business after 42 years and now pursues her passion full-time for rescuing at-risk horses and helping them find a purpose through healing humans.
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